Colleen Ballinger created the character of Miranda Sings eight years ago as a parody of the girls she studied acting and voice with — the ones who took confidence in their own talent to a rude extreme. Miranda is egotistical, aggressively conservative, wildly antagonistic, and constantly off-pitch. She’s obsessed with fame, and one of her signature catchphrases is “haters make me famous.” That’s true in the most literal sense, because the early Miranda videos went viral mostly from comments and shares from people who misinterpreted the horrible singing, loud sermons about “sinners,” and absurd lipstick line as sincere. The character is a Roseanne Roseannadanna for modern times, lovingly parodying our generation’s tackiest obsessions…

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